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A plaque commemorating UB40's first concert at the Hare & Hounds in Kings Heath, Birmingham. This line-up of the band lasted long enough to perform their first show at the Hare & Hounds pub in Kings Heath in February 1979 and one more gig before undergoing their first line-up change. Babayemi and Lynn left the group, with Mickey Virtue joining ...
Signing Off is the debut album by British reggae band UB40, released in the UK on 29 August 1980 by Dudley-based independent label Graduate Records.It was an immediate success in their home country, reaching number 2 on the UK albums chart, and made UB40 one of the many popular reggae bands in Britain, several years before the band found international fame.
Birmingham's culture of popular music first developed in the mid-1950s. [1] By the early 1960s the city's music scene had emerged as one of the largest and most vibrant in the country; a "seething cauldron of musical activity", [2] with over 500 bands constantly exchanging members and performing regularly across a well-developed network of venues and promoters. [3]
The discography of UB40, a British reggae band, consists of 21 studio albums, 19 compilation albums, six live albums, four remix albums, 65 singles and a number of appearances with other artists. The band has sold over 100 million records worldwide. [ 1 ]
Alistair Ian Campbell (born 15 February 1959) is an English singer and songwriter who was lead singer and co-founder of the British reggae band UB40. UB40 sold more than 70 million records worldwide and toured for 30 years with the original line-up of the band.
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Labour of Love is the fourth studio album by British reggae band UB40, and their first album of cover versions.Released in the UK on 12 September 1983, [2] the album is best known for containing the song "Red Red Wine", a worldwide number-one single, but it also includes three further UK top 20 hits, "Please Don't Make Me Cry", "Many Rivers to Cross" and "Cherry Oh Baby".
Dep International was a British record label founded in 1980 by members of British group UB40. [1] It specialised in reggae and dub music. The label went into administration in October 2006 and into insolvent liquidation in April 2008. [2] [3] It was based in DEP International Studios in Digbeth, Birmingham.